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ago to St. Louis, which sold for 16 cents 

 per section ! At home I get 12 % cents 

 per section ; next week I will raise the 

 price to 15 cents per section. 



I have kept one colony building comb 

 and storing honey in Langstroth frames 

 to feed with next spring, and have 

 secured 24 of the same with sealed 

 honey. My bees swarmed once during 

 the summer — June 18. I provided 

 plenty of room and shade by planting 

 butter-beans for that purpose. Bees 

 are booming on golden-rod, asters, etc. 

 now. D. A. Cadwallader. 



Prairie du Rocher, Ills., Sept. 26. 



Poor Season for Bees. 



I had 47 colonies, spring count, and 

 extracted 275 pounds of honey, 112 

 pounds of comb honey, and had 33 

 swarms, but the most of them went 

 back to the old hives in a few minutes ; 

 sometimes a part would go back, and 

 just a few remain in the new hive. 

 There is not more than one-fourth of 

 the new swarms that gathered enough 

 to winter on, but all of the old ones are 

 in good condition for winter. 



I attend to most of the bees within 

 five miles of me, and find that none of 

 them have done any better than my 

 own. I cannot see that my bees have 

 stored anything since July 20th. There 

 is more golden-rod here this season than 

 I ever saw before, but the bees pass it 

 by. I extracted a few pounds some days 

 ago, but it looked more like Mew Orleans 

 molasses than like honey. Extracted 

 honey is worth 10 cents a pound, and 

 comb honey 15 cents, here. 



C. C. Zinn. 



New Windsor, Colo., Sept. 26, 1892. 



Bee Journal Posters, printed 

 in two colors, will be mailed free upon 

 application. They may be used to ad- 

 vantage at Fairs over Bee and Honey 

 Exhibits. We will send sample copies 

 of the Bee Journal to be used in con- 

 nection with the Posters in securing 

 subscribers. Write a week before the 

 Fair, telling us where to send them. We 

 would like to have a good agent at every 

 Fair to be held this year. Here is a 

 chance for a live man — or woman. 



The Globe Bee-Veil, which we offer 

 on page 476 of this number of the 

 Bee Journal, is just the thing. You 

 can get it for sending us only three new 

 subscribers, at $1.00 each. 



Keeping Comb Honey. 



A question: — "Where and how can 

 I keep honey afyer it is taken out of the 

 hive? Last summer I took some out 

 about August 1st, and put it into a room 

 upstairs. There were a few old combs, 

 flour and other stuff in the room. In 

 three or four weeks after, there were a 

 lot of little butterflies and worms all 

 over the honey." 



Ans. — The above correspondent raises 

 an important question in keeping comb 

 honey, and we reply by cautioning 

 against allowing old combs in any place 

 where section honey is stored. All old 

 or waste comb should be rendered into 

 wax, and never be allowed around where 

 bees are kept, as it is sure to be a nurs- 

 ery for the bee-moth in warm weather. 



When comb honey is infested with 

 moths it can be cleared by setting the 

 cases or sections in a large box or other 

 tight room, then burning some sulphur 

 in an iron kettle, covering all up tightly, 

 and using great care to not set the box 

 or house on fire. 



When moths infest our comb honey, as 

 they have sometimes done, we set the 

 cases tightly on top of each other and 

 then burn sulphur on top in an empty 

 hive body. Two pounds of stick-brim- 

 stone, burned in a tight room 12 feet 

 square, will destroy all animal life in it. 

 — Selected. 



Alcohol on the Brain. 



"I was present at an autopsy of a 

 noted old 'rounder' of my town a few 

 weeks ago," said John A. Holliday, of 

 Troy, N. Y., to a St. Louis Globe repor- 

 ter, "and I was startled and shocked at 

 what I saw. The dead man was about 

 sixty years old and had been the town 

 drunkard for forty years. The doctors 

 had surmised that when they cut his 

 head open a pronounced smell of alcohol 

 would issue from the skull. 



" I thought it only one of those grim 

 sort of jokes that the -iEsculapians in- 



